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“In stature and significance Chekhov is the most prominent Russian author of the literary generation succeeding Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky” (Anton 144). In many stories Anton Chekhov has written his work so that the readers can make an ideal mental picture in their head about what is happening in the story. Chekhov wrote, “Dreams,” “Anna on the Neck” and “Anyuta;” all being short stories. Through thorough examinations of these stories one has to believe that they have three assets that link them together, they are: self-actualization, deal with lower class citizens and unexpected endings.

One asset that links the stories is self-actualization. In “Dreams” one can see that the tramp realizes that he isn’t a noble, and that he will never be able to get his farm in Siberia. In “Anyuta,” one can see how Anyuta realizes that she is not wanted; therefore she realizes that she has wasted her life in helping other people, who in return will not help her out after they make their money. In “Anna on the Neck,” one can see Anna realizes that she is better than her husband, when all through the story her

The last similarity in the three works is that they all ended with an unexpected ending. In “Dreams,” one would not have of expected it to end with him walking down a road about to pass out, one would have expected the tramp to be forced into prison. In “Anyuta,” one wouldn’t have expected the young man to tell Anyuta to leave, one would have expected that she stay, and after the young man graduates, he would have came back for her. When the young man says “Look here, my good girl . . . sit down and listen. We must part!” (Matlaw 23), a person wouldn’t have expected him to say it like that, or even say it at all. In “Anna on the Neck,” who would have expected it to end like that, with Anna meeting His Excellency’s wife, becoming rich and then controlling her husband instead of the opposite, one would have thought that Anna would have divorced him, and went on to live with some other man.

husband treats her as if she were his servant, but in the end she does the opposite to him, after she becomes friends with His Excellency’s wife. Anna becomes higher than her husband when His Excellency says “I’ve come to you with a message from my wife

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